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[Reanneaustin64]

Just me and my husband are going in October, we hve 4 children staying at home with grandparents we have a largish family we have never been before so are wondering what budget everyone else took to Disney what should we try and aim for we have a figure in mind which is €2000, Will this be enough or to much or God forbid not enough any help would be great thanks xx

[rebecca20]

Are you meaning for hotel and travel or just as spending money? If it is for hotel and travel you will be fine unless you want to stay in castle club.

[bad-pink-tink]

Staying at an onsite hotel breakfast is include. For the rest it depends how much you want to spend on food and how much you eat.

For example lunch at Mc Donalds or Earl of Sandwich will be around €10 per person
Lunch at a quick service in the park will be around €20 per person
Lunch at a table service will be around €40 per person

The same for evening meal

I usually budget €60 for food each day

Merchandise
the parks are a shopoholics dream 
Plushes start at €10 for the smallest and go upwards depending on character and size
Mugs are around €15
Tshirts are around €20

The biggest outlay is usually for the hotel and parks package. Once you are in the parks you dont have to pay for rides or attractions

The second biggest outlay is transport, flights, buses, trains etc,

[Reanneaustin64]

Thank you both travel is booked and paid as is hotel we were staying at Santa fe but upgraded for £80 to stay at Newport bay just merchandise really for money not sure if I said already but 4 children 3 girls one boy, 3 girls who really want a princess costume each with matching accessories let alone other toys and gifts the son is more easy (he can't talk yet lol) plus smaller cheaper bits for family xx

[Slimy yet satisfying]

How on earth did you manage to pull that one off!? Disney without the kids...ours would never let that happen! Even our 2 eldest..who dont live at home anymore come with us..they even bring their partners! 

[rebecca20]

You should definitely be able to cover everything with 2000 euro. Maybe set a budget for each child? I don't know for sure but I think you should be able to manage a full costume for under 150.

Personally I didn't think the toys were too expensive - I got the most adorable train set for my godsons and that was only around 60 euros and its huge!

On my last trip I budgeted 1000 euros for everything and came home with 400 spare. That included a longchamp handbag and several bits of makeup from Sephora along with around 5 plushies, 15 pins and 5 christmas decorations (loads of other bits too).

[Slimy yet satisfying]

Just linked your posts..doh!

Since you are returning next year with your children I would be inclined to not bother with buying the expensive costumes in the park. Save that money to spend on them when they are with you in the park next year, it will be more fun watching them choose a special item themselves.

Cheeky idea but Im guessing your kids are young therefore really wont know that their costumes come from the disney store uk or asda and not paris, so buy them in advance and just get a few extra disney Paris bags from the park. When you come home and unpack you can swap the costumes into the paris bags. You could always top up the bags with proper disney sweets, they have ear shaped mallows tied into pretty cones in most shops.

You will save youself hundreds of euros that way and with 4 kids on the run up to Christmas every penny counts!

[Reanneaustin64]

Slimey yet satisfying... What a great idea!!! I will speak to my husband about buying the costumes here I can't believe I didn't think of that before lol!!! Yeah in answer to your first comment I'm not entirely sure how we got away with it either their good kids I guess haha they know it's our wedding anniversary and we've promissed they come the next time and get goodies this time I'm still quite shocked myself as are our friends )  rebecca20 thank you for your advice it really is so helpful any advice I get goes straight on board I'm really looking forward to buying pins it's something I've become very interested in 😃😃 xx